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get away from the 2012 election and the senate vote, it helps the house republicans who don t want to vote for it. but speaking to the time factor, the closer we get to the midterms that s also something in the house they re going to be thinking about, whether or not how their vote may be used against them. and i think one thing we also have to keep in mind when we re looking at the house of representatives when we talk about the pressure they ll feel, say, with some momentum coming out of the senate, that s looking at it from a very traditional sense. this is not, as you mention, this is not a traditional house of representatives. there s that certain caucus, they will not feel that pressure at all. they are anti-establishment. they are they re not necessarily inclined to compromise. they are not they certainly don t want to be corralled or rangeled bir their speaker. what they re passionate about is opposing the path to citizenship, what they call amnesty. they re a wild card
from 40 years ago can never be forgiven. georgians have to wear the scarlet letter because of their grandparents. as fanny lou hamer famously said, i m sick and tired of being sick and tired. now, i guess i bring this up. the final vote was 390-33. a position so marginalized in the house. we re talking in all likelihood the majority position of the supreme court. the other reason i bring it up, if the court strikes down section 5, it will possibly give an opening to congress to come back and rectify it, for congress to go back and make a fix. when i look at sensenbrenner and all the republicans in 2006 who voted for reauthorization, do you feel there might be an appetite for republicans in congress if this is struck down to come up with a rework that would meet the court s standards? i think watching those two
chance in the house and what is the house going to do? the big issue there being will john boehner put this on the floor and allow a vote even if most republicans are going to vote against it. dana rohrabacher, a long-time conservative congressman from california, when he first ran in 1988, he was one of the few republicans who asked oliver north to come campaign for him, after iran contra. he was asked about that prospect of boehner putting the bill on the floor this week. this is what he said on a world net daily radio. if speaker boehner moves forward and permits this to come to a vote, even though the majority of republicans in the house, and that s if they do, oppose whatever it is that s coming to a vote, he should be removed as speaker. and then speaker boehner was asked about that comment or threat, whatever you to want call it and this is how he replied. representative rohrabacher
argument, it came up in oral ar uments all the time from skeptical justices, this is a law from the 1960s. do times change? why is this time has changed but, you know, the legacy of discrimination in the south is still very apparent if you look at voting patterns there. who they elect and who votes in those elections. you know, this is interesting, in 2006 you see how the political will has changed. in 2006 boehner and issa both voted in favor of this law. republicans right now are trying to distance themselves from this case in particular but it s very clear the political will seems to be indicating republicans believe they can get rid of section 5. it s possible to do that. in 2006 you had republicans moderate and conservative republicans almost laughing out of hand in attempts to change the voting rights law in the ways that the conservative justices seem to be suggesting we do, which is to get rid of some formulas for coverage. as a matter of fact, the formulas for coverage, to
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